A top secret RAF spy plane shown being threatened with destruction by a Russian fighter jet has been likened to an ...

The RAF is providing RC-135 Rivet Joint and P-8 Poseidon MRA1 aircraft from the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Force to assist NATO operation Baltic Sentry.

The replacement for the Nimrod R1 will be the Rivet Joint aircraft, due into service with the RAF in 2014. For now, RAF crews from 51 Squadron are already co-manning US Rivet Joint aircraft in ...

the Rivet Joint’s mission was so secret even the two RAF fighter pilots tasked with protecting it from harm and intimidation were not told of the objectives. The aircraft is considered ‘the ...

Two Typhoon jets escorting the RAF’s ‘Rivet Joint’ spy plane were warned that ... Kremlin’s long-range ‘Bears’ and other rogue aircraft in or near UK airspace took place last year ...

The RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft supports theater and national level consumers with near real time on-scene intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.

But now three senior Western defence sources with knowledge of the incident have told the BBC that Russian communications intercepted by the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft give a very different ...

RC-135V Rivet Joint lands at Offutt Air Force Base in 2018. The same plane flew last week on a mission near Mexico's Baja California, sparking buzz on social media.

An American intelligence-gathering aircraft has operated off the coast of Crimea for the first time since the outbreak of the ...

A jet from Offutt Air Force Base’s 55th Wing flew a mission around Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, apparently as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to boost control of immigration.

A Russian pilot attempted to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane last year, sources have told the BBC. Moscow said at the time that a missile was released as a result of a "technical malfunction".

The RAF is providing RC-135 Rivet Joint and P-8 Poseidon MRA1 aircraft from the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Force to assist NATO operation Baltic Sentry.